Nika Mcguigan

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“You are like a scar that won’t fade,” Danielle tells Aisling
Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope: Aisling is a habit we can’t shake

One of the freshest, funniest and most alarming shows on television ended 18 months ago with an otherwise pedestrian sight, familiar to most nightclub(...)

The Young Offenders
From Derry Girls to Cork offenders: unmissable TV for 2018

It’s still so young as a medium: not even a century old. But so much has happened to television recently, it’s hard to say how we’ll be watching it by(...)

The potential to return, like: RTÉ2’s ‘Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope’ starring Nika McGuigan (left) and Seána Kerslake.
‘Back for a second series’ are the magic words in Irish television in 2016

In Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, the new comedy drama made for RTÉ by Deadpan Pictures, Danielle (Nika McGuigan) sums up her friendship with Aisling (Seána (...)

Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope: Stefanie Preissner. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
‘Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope’: the making of RTÉ’s dark new comedy drama

Stefanie Preissner, the 28-year-old writer of RTÉ’s new comedy drama Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, accepts a coffee from Amy Huberman, who is wearing a big (...)